Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Do you speak French?/ Parlez-vous français?


Who doesn't know what a "baguette" or a "croissant" is? Or hasn't heard "la musique" of Edith Piaff or Charles Aznavour? Who hasn't dreamt of a "dîner en amoureux" on a "bateau-mouche" sailing smoothly on the Seine, gazing at the lighted Tour Eiffel and whispering "Je t'aime!"?

Everybody, or at least most of us, has heard about France and the French language, the "language of love", as they call it.